The recent transfer of many teachers in the Zilla Parishad-run schools in Maharashtra's Palghar and unfilled vacancies in the district as 28 schools are now without even a single teacher and 105 schools with just one teacher, chairman of a government-appointed committee told news agency PTI.

Head of the state government's committee on tribal welfare, Vivek Pandit, who has been accorded the status of a Minister of State, wrote a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, urging him to stay the transfer of teachers so that students do not suffer, reported PTI.